Matt Doherty says bottom club Wolves need to do some "soul-searching", and urged his team-mates not to be "cowards" in their desperate bid for Premier League survival.

Rob Edwards' side suffered a 10th straight league defeat on Saturday, as they were beaten 2-0 by Brentford at Molineux.

Wolves are only the fourth Premier League club to lose 10 successive matches during a single season, after Sunderland (2002-03), Aston Villa (2015-16) and Norwich City (2019-20).

The only team in the top seven tiers of English football yet to win a game this term, they also equalled the longest winless start to a Premier League campaign (Sheffield United also 17 games in 2020-21).

Doherty, who has spent over a decade at Wolves across two spells, issued a rallying cry to his team-mates, who have registered just two points all season. 

"We're not finding it easy at all," he told Wolves' official website. "We're very hurt, but we need to show up, we need to act. It's easy to say all these things, that we're hurt, but we just need to show more on the pitch.

"You can see the stadium is nearly empty at the end, it's not full at the start, but we're just lacking belief that we can actually win the games.

"We're afraid and scared to win the game, almost nervous about actually going ahead in the game and having to try and hold on. We've just got to somehow keep trying to find something.

"We need to do some soul-searching and have a look in the mirror and just figure out what we want to be remembered for at the club. Do we want to be remembered for fighting all the way to the end of the season?

"Or, do we want to be remembered for being cowards and taking the easy option, maybe trying to leave in January, or not fighting and training, and letting other people take your position?"

Meanwhile, Brentford ended a run of four straight Premier League away defeats, thanks to Keane Lewis-Potter's second-half brace.

It marked a successful return to Molineux for Wolves academy graduate Keith Andrews, who made a single top-flight appearance for the club back in November 2003.

"I feel like a lot of the performances away from home have been good, but we haven't been on the right side of the results," he said.

"[At the break] I said to them that in the five games Rob [Edwards] has been in charge, they have been drawing in every single game at half-time. It is not easy to break them down, but we tweaked a couple of things.

"The preparation and dedication of the group all week has been immense. The togetherness we have, it's a pleasure to be around.

"We want to progress, we want to have that mindset. There will be bumps in the road, that's the nature of the game, but the togetherness in the group is really impressive."